The Tenament Museum

The Tenement Museum tells one of America's most important stories:

• How America became a continent

• How immigrants became Americans

• How immigrants left America

• How America became a nation

The Tenement building homed over:

• more than 15, 000 immigrants over 20 nations

• more than 20,000 immigrants from more than 15 nations.

• 15,000 immigrants from 20 nations.

• 200,000 immigrants from more than 150 nations

In the Tenement Museum you can:

• Understand what it is to be a new American

• Understand how was America in the past

• Understand the life in the past

• Understand the differences between immigrants now and then

In the Tenement Museum people can see:

• restored apartments

• unrestored aparments

• big supermarkets

• retail spaces in buildings

The Tenement Museum is also recreating:

• Homes of Puertoricans migrants

• Homes of Chinese migrants

• Homes of Latin American migrants

• Homes of Holocaust survivors

In the Lower East Side you can also see:

• Immigrants poetry

• Immigrants jails

• Samples of immigrants cuisine

• Immigrants police station

The Tenement Museum shows:

• How immigrants resist the hard times

• How immigrants broke the law

• How immigrants shaped America identity

• How immigrants were sent back to their countries

The Tenement Museum is the place where you can learn about the waves of:

• German immigration

• Jewish immigration

• Irish immigration

• Italian immigration

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The Tenement Museum focuses on:

• famous people's daily life

• industrialists's daily life

• presidents' daily life

• ordinay people's daily life

• writers' daily life

by the early 1900's the Lower East Side was:

• The most famous placed in the world

• The most densely populated place in the world

• The poorest place in the world